TY - JOUR AU - David Awschalom AU - Karl Berggren AU - Hannes Bernien AU - Sunil Bhave AU - Lincoln Carr AU - Paul Davids AU - Sophia Economou AU - Dirk Englund AU - Andrei Faraon AU - Martin Fejer AU - Saikat Guha AU - Martin Gustafsson AU - Evelyn Hu AU - Liang Jiang AU - Jungsang Kim AU - Boris Korzh AU - Prem Kumar AU - Paul Kwiat AU - Marko Lončar AU - Mikhail Lukin AU - David Miller AU - Christopher Monroe AU - Sae Nam AU - Prineha Narang AU - Jason Orcutt AU - Michael Raymer AU - Amir Safavi-Naeini AU - Maria Spiropulu AU - Kartik Srinivasan AU - Shuo Sun AU - Jelena Vučković AU - Edo Waks AU - Ronald Walsworth AU - Andrew Weiner AU - Zheshen Zhang AB - Just as “classical” information technology rests on a foundation built of interconnected information-processing systems, quantum information technology (QIT) must do the same. A critical component of such systems is the “interconnect,” a device or process that allows transfer of information between disparate physical media, for example, semiconductor electronics, individual atoms, light pulses in optical fiber, or microwave fields. While interconnects have been well engineered for decades in the realm of classical information technology, quantum interconnects (QuICs) present special challenges, as they must allow the transfer of fragile quantum states between different physical parts or degrees of freedom of the system. The diversity of QIT platforms (superconducting, atomic, solid-state color center, optical, etc.) that will form a “quantum internet” poses additional challenges. As quantum systems scale to larger size, the quantum interconnect bottleneck is imminent, and is emerging as a grand challenge for QIT. For these reasons, it is the position of the community represented by participants of the NSF workshop on “Quantum Interconnects” that accelerating QuIC research is crucial for sustained development of a national quantum science and technology program. Given the diversity of QIT platforms, materials used, applications, and infrastructure required, a convergent research program including partnership between academia, industry, and national laboratories is required. BT - PRX Quantum DA - Feb DO - 10.1103/PRXQuantum.2.017002 N2 - Just as “classical” information technology rests on a foundation built of interconnected information-processing systems, quantum information technology (QIT) must do the same. A critical component of such systems is the “interconnect,” a device or process that allows transfer of information between disparate physical media, for example, semiconductor electronics, individual atoms, light pulses in optical fiber, or microwave fields. While interconnects have been well engineered for decades in the realm of classical information technology, quantum interconnects (QuICs) present special challenges, as they must allow the transfer of fragile quantum states between different physical parts or degrees of freedom of the system. The diversity of QIT platforms (superconducting, atomic, solid-state color center, optical, etc.) that will form a “quantum internet” poses additional challenges. As quantum systems scale to larger size, the quantum interconnect bottleneck is imminent, and is emerging as a grand challenge for QIT. For these reasons, it is the position of the community represented by participants of the NSF workshop on “Quantum Interconnects” that accelerating QuIC research is crucial for sustained development of a national quantum science and technology program. Given the diversity of QIT platforms, materials used, applications, and infrastructure required, a convergent research program including partnership between academia, industry, and national laboratories is required. PB - American Physical Society PY - 2021 EP - 017002 T2 - PRX Quantum TI - Development of Quantum Interconnects (QuICs) for Next-Generation Information Technologies UR - https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PRXQuantum.2.017002 VL - 2 ER -